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FOLKLORE STORIES AND 
^ PROVERBS 

GATHERED AND PARAPHRASED FOR 
LITTLE CHILDREN 

BY 

SARA E. WILTSE 

ILLUSTRATED BY 

EDITH BROWN 


BOSTON, U.S.A. 

GINN & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 
Ct)e ^tbenaettm prefi(0 
1900 


l.jbr«ry of Conqress 

Iwo Coptes Received 

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SECOND COPY 

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Copyright, 1900 
By SARA E. WILTSE 


ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 



INTRODUCTION 


This book is one of the series of folk stories and fairy 
tales of which the two volumes of Grimm’s stories were 
the first to appear. In this volume the tales are modi- 
fied in a greater degree than in the others, since it has 
been prepared for the use of children who are just learn- 
ing to read. 

The youngest children are at one with birds, beasts, 
and insects, and it is only through imitation and instruc- 
tion that they learn to avoid these creatures. 

While in this period of unbroken unity with life, the 
little children project their own experiences into the lives 
of animals about them, attributing to them a language 
which is naively claimed to be perfectly understood. 

Classic tales, based on such understanding of the talk 
of birds and beasts, have perpetuated themselves; and 
even if all such literature were burned by the Grad- 
grinds, it would spring up anew as long as children and 
child-like men survived. 


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It is our duty, however, to present these stories un- 
sullied by the evil accretions of time, bringing them 
into such harmony with the spirit of the age as our 
advanced civilization demands. 

In childhood. 

All the earth is gay ; 

Land and sea 

Give themselves up to jollity, 

And with the heart of May 

Doth every beast keep holiday.” 


In the hope of fostering this joyous spirit in child life, 
one more offering from the stores of time-honored litera- 
ture is submitted by 


SAKA E. WILTSE. 


CONTENTS 


PAGE 

1. Henny Penny ........ 1 

2. Big Spider and Little Spider . . . . .11 

3. The House that Jack Built ..... 19 

4. The Moon in the Mill Pond . . . . .24 

5. The Sheep and the Pig 32 

6. The Lion and the Elephant . . . . .37 

7. The Sole 40 

8. The Three Bears . .43 

9. The Lion and the Mouse 62 

10. Boots and the Beasts 66 

11. The Tortoise and the Earth . . . . . 77 

12. Chaucer^s Garden 80 





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Houghton, Mifflin & Co. in permitting the use of ^‘The Moon 
in the Mill Pond,^’ from Nights with Uncle Eemus,’’ by Joel 
Chandler Harris. 

It will be seen that the story is rendered into English, but 
not in any other way altered, this change being made only 
because little children cannot read dialect stories with ease. 

The Sheep and the Pig and Boots and Beasts are from 
Asbjornsen’s Eairy Tales,’’ and the editor is under obligations 
to He Wolfe, Fiske & Co. for the privilege of using these stories 
in this collection. 


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FOLKLORE STORIES 


HENNY PENNY 

NE bright sunny 
morning a hen 

was picking up 

peas under a pea 
stack when a pea 
fell on her top- 

knot with such a thump that she 

thought the sky was falling. “ Cut, 
cut, cut,” said Henny Penny, “ I must 
tell the king about that,” So she 

went, and she went, until she met a 
cock with a red comb and sharp spurs. 



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The cock said : 

“ Where are you going, Henny 
Penny?” 

And Henny Penny said: 

“ O Cocky Locky ! the sky is falling, 
and I am going to tell the king.” 

Cocky Locky said : 

“ I will go with you, Henny Penny.” 
So Cocky Locky and Henny Penny 
went, and went, and went, until they 
met Chicken Licken. 

Chicken Licken said: 

“ Where are you going, Henny 
Penny and Cocky Locky?” 

And they said: 

“ O Chicken Licken ! the sky is fall- 
ing, and we are going to tell the king.” 


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Then Chicken Licken said : 

“ I will go with you, Henny Penny 
and Cocky Locky.” 

So Henny Penny and Cocky Locky 
and Chicken Licken went, and went, 
and went, until they met Ducky 
Daddies. 

Ducky Daddies said : 

“ Where are you going, Henny 


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Ducky Daddies said: “I will go with you.” 


Penny, Cocky Locky, and Cliicken 
Licken?” 

And they said: 

“ O Ducky Daddies ! the sky is fall- 
ing, and we are going to tell the king,” 
And Ducky Daddies said : 

“ I will go with you, Henny Penny, 
Cocky Locky, and Chicken Licken.” 


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They met Goosey Loosey. 


So Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, 
Chicken Licken, and Ducky Daddies 
went, and went, and went, until they 
met Goosey Loosey. 

And Goosey Loosey said: 

“ Where are you going, Henny 
Penny, Cocky Locky, Chicken Lic- 
ken, and Ducky Daddies ? ” 

And they said: 


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They met Turkey Lurkey. 

“ O Goosey Loosey ! the sky is fall- 
ing, and we are going to tell the king.” 
And Goosey Loosey said : 

“ I will go with you, Henny Penny, 
Cocky Locky, Chicken Licken, and 
Ducky Daddies.” 

So they went, and went, and went, 



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until they met Turkey Turkey, f Thr- 
key Turkey said: ' ) 'ili; 

“ Where are you going, Henny 
Penny, Cocky Tocky, Chicken Ticken, 
Ducky Daddies, and Goosey Toosey ? ” 
And they said : 

“ The sky is falling, and we are 
going to tell the king.” 

Then Turkey Turkey said: 

“ I will go with you, Henny Penny, 
Cocky Tocky, Chicken Ticken, Ducky 
Daddies, and Goosey Toosey.” 

So they went, and they went, and 
they went, until they came to the 
king’s palace. 

The king said: 

“ What do you want, Henny Penny, 



Cocky Locky, Chicken Licken, Ducky 
Daddies, Goosey Loosey, and Turkey 
Turkey ? ” 

And Henny Penny said ; 

“O King! the sky is falling, .and 
we came to tell you.” 

“ But the sky eannot fall,” said the 
king; “what made you think it was 
falling?” 


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Then Henny Penny said: 

“ I was picking peas from the pea 
stack and something fell on my top- 
knot I am sure, and I thought it was 
a piece of the sky.” 

“ Let us see,” said the good and 
wise king, and there in Henny Penny’s 
topknot was a tiny pea caught in the 
feathers. Then the king said: 

“ Henny Penny, let your foolish 
journey teach you to think twice 
before you speak.” 

A little while after yon might have 
seen them walking slowly homeward, 
Henny Penny, Cocky Locky, Chicken 
Licken, Ducky Daddies, Goosey Loosey, 
and Turkey Lurkey, each wearing a 


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thinking cap. And never since that 
day have they been heard to say 
much hut : 

“ Kit, kit, ka dah kut ; cock a doodle 
doo ; peep, peep ; quack, quack ; and 
gobble, gobble.” Perhaps they mean 
by that, that the sky cannot fall. 


The wise can learn of fools. 

Better alone than in bad company. 



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BIG SPIDER AND LITTLE SPIDER 

BIG spider and a 
little spider lived 
in tlie same corner. 
They made their 
broth in the shell 
of a butterfly’s egg. 
One morning the big spider saw the 
little spider spinning her first web. 
He ran down his rope, swinging back 
and forth. 

“ Why do you swing on your rope, 
brother spider ? ” said a pretty fly. 

“ Because little spider has spun her 
first web,” said big spider. 

Hearing this, away buzzed pretty 



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“Why do you buzz, pretty fly?” 


fly. As the fly was passing a humble- 
bee on a clover blossom, the bumblebee 
said : 

“Why do you buzz, pretty fly?” 

“ Because little spider has spun her 
first web, and brother spider swings 
on his rope.” 

Then the bumblebee began to hum. 




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A grasshop- 
per hopping 
that way said; 

“Why do you 
hum, humble- 
bee ? ” 

“May I not 
hum?” said the 
bumblebee. 

“Little spider 
has spun her 
first web. 

“Brother 
spider swings 
on his rope. 

“ Pretty fly 
buzzes.” 




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A grasshopper hopping that way. 


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The grasshopper said : 


I : “ I. will make a sharp noise.” So 
he leaped into the air and made such 
a sharp noise that an ant asked : 



“ Why do you 
make a sharp 
noise, grasshop- 


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“ Because,” said 


the grasshopper, 

“ Little spider 


The ant ran to and fro. 


has spun her first web. 
j “ Brother spider swings on his rope. 
'“Pretty fiy buzzes. 

“ Bumblebee hums.” 

“ That is right,” said the ant. “ I 
too will do something.” 


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So the ant ran to and fro till she 
met a butterfly ; and the butterfly 
said : 

“ Why do you 
run to and fro, 
ant ? ” 

The ant re- 
plied : 

“ Because 
little spider has 
spun her first 
web, 

“Brother 
spider swings on 
his rope. 

“ Pretty fly makes a buzzing sound. 

“ Bumblebee hums, hums, hums. 



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“Grasshopper makes a sharp noise.” 

So the butterfly said : 

“ I must float in the air to show 
the children how happy we are.” As 
she flew over the heads of some 
children the butterfly heard them 
ask : 

“ Why does the spider spin a web ? ” 

“ How does brother spider cling to 
his rope?” 

“ Why does pretty fly buzz ? ” 

“ How does bumblebee make a hum- 
ming sound?” 

“ Why does grasshopper make a 
sharp noise?” 

“ How does the ant run to and fro 
vdthout getting lost?” 


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To make little children ask 'Why' and 'How.' 


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“ Why does the butterfly float like 
a feather?” 

And a wise man answered : 

“Perhaps it is all done to make 
little children ask ‘ Why ’ and ‘ How,’ 
for such asking is the beginning of 
wisdom.” 



Wisdom is better than riches, 

A grain does not Jill the sack^ hut it helps. 

Every day a thread makes a skein in a year, 

‘^All my things are made of gold and silver^ 
even my copper kettles f says the braggart. 


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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 



HIS is the house 
that Jack built. 

This is the malt, 
that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 


This is the rat 

that ate the malt, 

that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 


This is the cat 

that chased the rat, 

that ate the malt, 

that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 


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This is the dog 

that worried the cat, 

that chased the rat, 
that ate the malt, 

that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 

This is the cow 

with crumpled horn, 

that tossed the dog, 

that worried the cat, 
that chased the rat, 
that ate the malt, 

that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 


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This is the maiden 
all forlorn, 

that milked the cow 
with crumpled horn, 
that tossed the dog, 
that worried the cat, 
that chased the rat, 
that ate the malt, 
that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 

This is the youth 
all tattered and torn, 
that kissed the maiden 
all forlorn, 

that milked the cow 
with crumpled horn, 
that tossed the dog, 
that worried the cat, 
that chased the rat, 
that ate the malt, 
that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 


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This is the priest 
all shaven and shorn, 
that married the youth 
all tattered and torn, 
that kissed the maiden 
all forlorn, 

that milked the cow 
with crumpled horn, 
that tossed the dog, 
that worried the cat, 
that chased the rat, 
that ate the malt, 
that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 


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This is the cock 
that crowed in the morn, 
to wake the priest 
all shaven and shorn, 
that married the youth 
all tattered and torn, 
that kissed the maiden 
all forlorn, 
that milked the cow 
with crumpled horn, 
that tossed the dog, 
that worried the cat, 
that chased the rat, 
that ate the malt, 
that lay in the house 
that Jack built. 


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THE MOON IN THE MILL POND 

ONG ago, when cats 
and coons, dogs and 
donkeys, fowls and 
foxes, bears and 
birds, turtles and 
terrapins, geese, 
rabbits, and children could talk with 
each other, the world was brim full 
of fun. 

One night Brother Rabbit met 
Brother Terrapin, and after, shaking 
hands they sat down by the road- 
side to talk of old times. Brother 
Rabbit was a merry little animal, 
always planning for some fun, and 




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Brother Terrapin was ready to help 
carry out his jokes. On this even- 
ing they agreed to ask Brother Fox, 
Brother Bear, and Brother Wolf to 
go fishing in the mill pond the next 
night. Brother Fox asked Miss Mott 
and some other girls to go, too, and 
they met at the mill pond soon after 
sundown. 

Brother Bear had a hook and line. 
Brother Wolf had a hook and line. 
Brother Fox had a dip-net, and Brother 
Terrapin had the bait. The girls 
stood away back from the edge of 
the pond and squealed every time 
Brother Terrapin shook the box of 
bait at them. 


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When they were ready to begin 
fishing, Brother Rabbit went close to 
the pond, and, instead of throwing in 
his hook, dropped the pole, scratched 
his head, and looked into the water 
as if he saw something he had never 
seen before. 

The girls were scared and asked 
him what was the matter, but Brother 
Rabbit only looked more and more 
surprised, and at last said they had 
better all run home, for they could 
not fish. 

Brother Terrapin, who loved fun 
almost as much as Brother Rabbit 
loved it, crept up to the water and 
looked over the edge, shook his head. 


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and crawled back as if he were 
scared too. 

Brother Babbit was always polite 
to the girls and did not like to 
have them badly scared, so he told 
them that whatever was to happen 
he would take care of them, but 
the moon had fallen into the mill 
pond ! 

They all crept up to the edge and 
peeped over, and sure enough ! there 
was the moon swinging and swaying 
at the bottom of the pond. 

Brother Fox looked in and said : 
“Well, well, well!” 

Brother Wolf looked in and said: 
“ Too bad, too bad ! ” 


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The moon had fallen into the mill pond! 




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Brother Bear looked in and said: 
“ Turn, turn, turn ! ” 

The girls looked in and squealed. 

Then Brother Babbit said they 
must get the moon out of the water 
or they could not catch a fish that 
night. 

They all asked how it could be 
done, and Brother Terrapin said they 
must ask Brother Babbit. Brother 
Babbit looked as if he were working 
his mind. He shut his eyes. At last 
he said they must draw it out with 
a seine. 

Brother Terrapin said he had heard 
that there was a pot of money with 
the moon. 


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Brother Rabbit took off his coat 
as if he would wade into the pond, 
but the larger animals, thinking they 
would get the gold, said they would 
be ashamed to let a little rabbit get 
wet, so Brother Rabbit and Brother 
Terrapin stood on the bank, while 
Brother Fox, Brother Wolf and Brother 
Bear waded into the pond to drop 
the net under the moon. 

They made one haul — no moon ; 
another haul — no moon ; another 
haul — no moon. They waded deeper 
and deeper into the. water. 

The water ran into Brother Wolfs 
ear, and he shook his head. The 
water ran into Brother Bear’s ear. 


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and he shook his head. The water 
grew deeper and deeper, and suddenly 
down they went, under the water. 

It looked as if they would splash 
it all out of the mill pond, and 
when they came ashore without the 
moon, all the girls were laughing, 
and Brother Babbit told them to 
go home and put on some dry 
clothes. 




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THE SHEEP AND THE PIG 

’ T is good to travel east and west, 

But after all a home is best. 

NCE upon a time a 
sheep and a curly- 
tailed pig agreed to 
build a house and 
make a little home 
of their own far 
from the houses of men. 

As they walked they met a goose. 
When they told her what they were 
going to do, the goose begged to go 
with them. “ What can you do to 
help?” they asked the goose. 

“I can pull moss and stuff it in 



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the cracks of the wall with my beak,” 
said the goose. “ Good ; you may go 
with us,” said the sheep and the pig. 



As they walked and talked about 
their new house, they met a rabbit, 
and the rabbit asked to go with them. 

“ What can you do to help in build- 
ing a house?” they asked the rabbit. 



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“ I can gnaw pegs with my sharp 
teeth and drive them into the wall 
with my paws,” said the rabbit. 

“ Good ! ” said the sheep and pig ; 
“you may go with us.” 

As the sheep, the pig, the goose, 
and the rabbit walked and talked of 
their new house, they met a cock, and 
the cock begged to go with them. 

“ What can you do to help in build- 
ing a house ? ” they asked the cock. 

“ I can crow in the morning to 
waken you at daybreak, and as you 
have no clock, that will be a help.” 

“ Good ! come with us,” they said. 

When they found the right place, 
the pig hewed the logs, the sheep 


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drew them together, the rabbit gnawed 
the pegs and drove them in with 
his paws, the goose pulled moss and 
stuffed it in the cracks, and the 
cock was better than a clock. 

They lived merrily and well ever 
after, and often sang this song: 

’Tis good to travel east and west, 

But after all a home is best. 

From Scandinavian Folklore. 




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THE LION AND THE ELEPHANT 

NCE upon a time 
a lion and an 
elephant became 
very good friends. 
The other beasts 
thought it strange 
that a lion should care so much for 
a plain elephant. 

“ Surely,” said the beasts, “ the ele- 
phant is no beauty; and what rude 
manners and what bad habits he 
has ! ” 

“ If he had a bushy tail like mine,” 
said the fox, “ no one would wonder 
that the lion is pleased with him.” 



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Because of his beautiful ears. 






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“ Or,” said the bear, “ if he had 
claws like mine, the lion might have 
been pleased with their beauty and 
forgotten his defects, but, as every 
one knows, he has no claws.” 

“ Perhaps the lion has mistaken 
his tusks for horns,” said the ox ; 
“ that would explain everything.” 

“ I know,,” said the donkey, shak- 
ing his long ears, “ I know why 
the lion admires the elephant; it is 
because of his beautiful ears.” 

From Russian Fables. 



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NCE upon a time, 
long ago, the fishes 
became tired of 
the lack of order 
among themselves. 
None turned aside 
for the others. Each swam right or 
left as best pleased him. Sometimes 
the strong ones beat the weak ones 
with their tails. Sometimes the weak 
ones huddled together and teased the 
strong ones. 

They felt the need of laws to obey, 
and at last agreed to choose a king 
who should make rules for their good. 


THE 



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Every fish longed to be king, 
although many of them knew they 
could not rule themselves or their 
own children. 

It was agreed that the one who 
could swim the best, and help the 
most, should be their king and law- 
maker. 

So they all went ashore and agreed 
to start together when the pike 
should give the signal with his tail. 

When the pike gave the signal, in 
they plunged and away they swam 
toward the goal. 

The pike darted like an arrow 
through the water, but the herring 
reached the goal first, and there 


42 6 «- 


was a shout, “ King Herring ! King 
Herring ! ” 

The little sole, who was near the 
bottom of the sea, tried so hard to 
get a look at the new king that both 
eyes popped up on one side of his 
head, where soles wear their eyes to 
this day. 



Gold and silver do not make men better. 



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THE THREE BEARS 

NCE upon a time 

three bears lived 

in the thick, dark 
woods. One was 

the great big 

father bear, with a 
great big voice. One was the middle- 
sized mother bear, with a voice quite 
low for a bear. One was a tiny little 
baby bear, with a tiny little baby 

voice. 

These bears had a house of their 
own in the woods. There was a 
great big chair for the great big 

bear. There was a middle-sized chair 





for the middle-sized bear, and there 
was a tiny little chair for the tiny 
little bear. 

There was a great big bed for the 
great big bear. There was a middle- 
sized bed for the middle-sized bear, 
and there was a tiny little bed for 
the tiny little bear. 

There was a great big bowl full of 
porridge for the great big bear. There 
was a middle-sized bowl full of por- 
ridge for the middle-sized bear, and 
there was a tiny little bowl full of 
porridge for the tiny little bear. 

Little Goldilocks was a pretty girl 
with bright hair that looked like gold. 
That is why she was called Goldilocks. 



Goldilocks looked up to say good morning 




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One day Goldilocks went into the 
woods to gather flowers. She found 
so many wild pinks and yellow lady- 
slippers that she walked a long way 
without once looking up. 

A crow spoke to her, saying, “ Caw ! 
caw!” Goldilocks looked up to say 
good morning. She was much sur- 
prised to find herself on the doorsteps 
of a very odd little house. The crow 
nodded his head and tiptoed along 
the ridge of the roof, as if to say : 
“ Step right in. Goldilocks ; it is the 
house of friends of mine.” 

Goldilocks was tired by her long 
walk, so she stepped in. The first 
thing she saw was the great big 


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chair standing by an open window. 
Goldilocks climbed into it. 

“ This great big chair is too hard,” 
said Goldilocks ; “I do not believe it 
was made for a little girl. I wonder 
whose house this is.” 

A catbird looked in at the win- 
dow and screamed. He did not like 
to see a little girl in a bear’s house, 
sitting in a bear’s chair. 

Goldilocks slid out of the great, 
big, hard chair and screamed at the 
catbird, just as he had screamed 
at her. He flew away, screaming : 
“ Mieaw ! mieaw ! mieaw ! ” 

The middle-sized chair stood close 
beside the great big chair, and Goldi- 


48 e«- 


locks climbed into that. “ This chair 
is too soft,” said Goldilocks ; and she 
slid down to the floor again. 

Between the great big chair and 
the middle-sized chair stood a tiny 
little chair. Goldilocks sat down in 
the tiny little chair, and it was just 
right, neither too soft nor too hard. 

As she sat she looked out of the 
window and saw a pretty owl blink- 
ing at her. The owl said : “ Who ? 
who? who?” He had never seen a 
little girl sitting in a bear’s chair. 

Goldilocks blinked at the owl and 
said : “ Who ? who ? who ? ” That is 
the polite way children talk to ani- 
mals. Animals like it. 


^ 49 


Where were the bears all this time 
that they did not come in to shake 
hands with their little visitor? 



Goldilocks blinked at the owl. 


They had gone for a walk. The 
tiny little bear was a mile away, rid- 
ing pigback on the great big bear’s 



-jS 50 


shoulders, while Goldilocks was sit- 
ing in his tiny little chair. 

Goldilocks smelled something that 
made her hungry. She went to the 
table to see what it was. There 
stood a great big howl of porridge. 
Goldilocks tasted of it. “ This por- 
ridge is too hot,” said Goldilocks. 

There was a middle-sized bowl of 
porridge. Goldilocks tasted of it. 
“ This is too cold,” said Goldilocks. 

There was the tiny little bowl of 
porridge. Goldilocks tasted of it. It 
was just right, neither too cold nor 
too hot, and Goldilocks ate it, every 
drop. 

By this time Goldilocks felt sleepy 


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Riding pigback on the great bear's shoulders. 


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52 


and looked at the beds. Now bears’ 
beds are very nice, or bears could 
not lie in them all whiter as they do, 



only waking up just enough to suck 
their paws a little now and then. 

Goldilocks climbed upon the great 
big bed. It was too hard. Goldi- 



^ 53 


locks climbed upon the middle-sized 
bed. It was too soft. She went to 
the tiny little bed and lay down. 
“ This is just right,” she said sleep- 
ily. Everything was very still in 
the woods. 

The crow had stopped saying : 
“ Caw ! caw ! caw ! ” 

The catbird had stopped sereaming: 
“ Mieaw ! mieaw ! mieaw ! ” 

The owl had stopped asking : “ Who ? 
who ? who ? ” 

Goldilocks went to sleep. While 
she was sleeping the bears came home. 
There were pinks and lady-slippers 
on the doorstep. 

The tiny little bear stooped to pick 


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them up. He was quite scared to 
hear the great big voice of the great 
big bear growl : 

“Somebody lias been sitting in my chair!” 

The middle-sized bear grumbled in 
a middle-sized voice : 

Somebody has been sitting in my chair ! ” 

The tiny little bear ran to look 
at his tiny little chair, and he 
whined in a tiny little voice : 

“Somebody has been sitting in my chair!” 

The bears now went to the table 
and the great big bear was very 
cross. He howled: 

“Somebody has tasted my porridge!” 

The middle-sized bear looked at 
her porridge bowl and put her paws 
to her head. 


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“ Somebody has tasted my porridge ! ” 

she wailed in a middle-sized voice. 
The tiny little bear was not very 


“Somebody has eaten every drop of my porridge.” 



hungry, but little hears try to act 
just as big bears act, so the tiny 
little bear looked in his empty por- 


^ 56 8 ^ 


ridge bowl, put his little paws to 
his head, and whimpered: 

“Somebody has eaten every drop of ray porridge!” 

Goldilocks was sound asleep all this 
time. 

The bears thought the fox had 
been prowling about their house, and 
they began a search for him. 

The great big bear was very angry 
indeed when he saw his bed. He 
roared : 

“ Somebody has been lying in my bed I ” 

The middle-sized bear looked at her 
bed and said in a middle-sized roar : 

Somebody has been lying in my bed ! ” 

The tiny little bear waddled to his 
bed, and seeing the bright hair of 


57 8*- 


Goldilocks spread all over liis pillow, 
he stroked it with his fat little paw, 
and laughed instead of whining; 

“Somebody is in my bed, and it is the prettiest little cub I ever saw !” 



She sat up in bed. 

This opened Goldilocks’ eyes, and 
she sat up in bed. At first she could 


58 8 «*- 


not remember where she was, she 
had slept so soundly. 

The great big bear was not so 
angry when he saw a little girl 
instead of a sly fox. He put his big 
paws behind his back so the child 
should not be scared. 

The middle-sized bear smoothed the 
fur on her head, perhaps wishing it 
were the color of gold like the little 
girl’s. 

The tiny little bear gave his tiny 
little paw to help Goldilocks to her feet. 

Goldilocks was wide awake now, 
and she knew she had not been polite 
to walk into the bears’ house when 
they were away from home. She said : 


59 



1 1 


Pleased to see you any day. Good-by ! ” 


^ 60 


“ I beg your pardon, Mr. and Mrs. 
Bear. I will never do so again.” 

She put her hand in her pocket 
and drew out all the checkerberries 



Goldilocks then ran home. 


she had picked that morning and 
gave them to the tiny little bear. 

“ I must go home to my mother 


^ 61 


now,” said Goldilocks. “ Bears some- 
times come to dance in front of our 
house. I should be pleased to see 
you any day. Good-by ! ” 

Goldiloeks then ran home as fast 
as her feet could carry her. 



Well begun is half done. 

Once well done is better than twice ill done. 


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THB LION AND THE MOUSE 

NCE upon a time a 
little mouse crept 
under the great 
paw of a sleeping 
. lion to warm him- 
self. When the 
lion awoke he roared so loudly that 
the little mouse shook with fear. 

The lion, being so strong and 
brave himself, was vexed with the 
mouse because he was afraid. He 
would have crushed the little trem- 
bling thing if it had not begged 
for life. 

“ Please do not kill me, O King of 



63 


Beasts ! Your warm paw saved me 
from freezing — you will not strike 
me with it now!” said the trembling 
mouse. 

The lion was pleased beeause the 
mouse found its voice and begged 
for life when trembling with fear, 
so he lifted his paw and let the 
little mouse go free. 

When the mouse was at a safe 
distance from the big paws and fierce 
jaws of the lion he said: 

“ Sometime I may be able to repay 
your kindness. Then, O King of 
Beasts, I will gladly do it.” 

At this the lion laughed, little 
thinking he could ever be in the 


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power of so small and timid a creature 
as the mouse. 

But not long after this the lion 
was caught in a net which hunters 
had spread for him. The more he 
turned, and twisted, and pulled at the 
ropes, the tighter they bound him. 
He roared with pain and anger. He 
called to his brother lions to come 
and help him, but they were too far 
away to hear his cries. 

The little mouse, however, heard 
his roars of pain and fright. Creep- 
ing close to the great beast, he began 
to gnaw the rope that was hurting 
the most. It was not long before 
the little mouse had set the great 


65 


lion free. You may be sure the 
lion was as grateful to the mouse 
as the mouse had been grateful to 
the lion. 






Evil habits spoil a child more than mud spoils 
a fine dress. 

What is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 
Everything is dijficult at first. 

Do as you would he done by. 


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BOOTS AND THE BEASTS 

NCE upon a time 
a lad named Boots 
saw a lion, a falcon, 
and an ant beside a 
dead horse. They 
were very angry 
The lion called to 

“ Come here, Boots ; yon shall settle 
our dispute. The falcon claims more 
than his share, and the ant is so set 
in her way that the food will spoil 
while we stand quarreling over it.” 

Boots gave each a fair share. 

The falcon took his; but before 



67 


touching his beak to it, offered to pay 
Boots for the t im e and wisdom put 
to their service. 


Boots gave each a fair share. 



“ No,” said Boots, “ I charge you 
nothing.” 

“ But,” said the ant, “ time is valu- 
able, and we called you from your 


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way. I for one am willing to pay 
you a fair price.” 

“ I am repaid,” said Boots, “ by see- 
ing you at peace with each other.” 

The lion, however, said: 

“ You must at least accept a gift. 
We will each grant you one wish.” 

Boots was a merry lad, well pleased 
with his fortunes, just as they came, 
and could think of nothing to wish. 

It was agreed that the animals 
should choose for him. 

The lion said: 

“ I give you the power to roam in 
the forests in the form of a lion. 
It may he of service to you some- 
time.” 


^ 69 So 


The falcon, not to he outdone hj 
the generous lion, said: 

“ I bestow upon you, my dear 
Boots, the magic power of taking 
the form of a falcon, with the 
falcon’s untiring wing. When you 
need to do it, you can take the 
shape I wear and fly across the 
seas.” 

The ant had a heart as true as 
that of the great lion. She said : 

“ It may sometime happen, my dear 
friend, that the size of the little ant 
will serve you better than falcon’s 
wing or lion’s strength. When you 
choose, you may shrink to the size 
of the smallest ant.” 


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Boots thanked them and went his 
way well pleased. 



The first time he used his falcon 
wings he was caught by a beautiful 
princess and put in a cage in her 
palace. Growing tired of the cage, 



^ 71 


he changed himself into an ant and 
was creeping through the keyhole to 
escape when he heard sounds of weep- 



“What can 1 do to make you happy?” 


ing. He crept hack into the room 
and saw the beautiful princess crying 
as if her heart would break. An ant 


->6 72 B <- 


could not comfort her, so he changed 
himself to the merry Boots and asked: 

“ What ean I do to make you 
happy?” 

“ I fear you can do nothing for one 
in such distress as mine,” said the 
princess. “ A cruel dragon has stolen 
my sisters, and will soon carry me 
also into his horrid den.” 

“ Be of good cheer, dear princess,” 
said Boots. “ I have strength to slay 
a dozen dragons.” 

Boots changed himself into an ant, 
and crept unhurt into the cave of 
the dreadful dragon. There he found 
the sisters of the princess weeping 
bitterly. He waited unseen until the 


^ 73 e«- 



A cruel dragon. 


-»8 74 


dragon went out ; then he took the 
form of the merry lad. The sisters 
were much surprised. They were 
more surprised at wliat he said. 

“ I have come to save you. You 
must not be frightened at what you 
will see. When the dragon comes 
back I shall change myself into a 
lion strong and terrible. I shall kill 
the dragon. You must not be afraid 
of the lion. He will not harm you. 

“ Do not step on an ant if you see 
one in the cave, do not even brush 
him from your hand if he should 
crawl there. 

“ Remember when you see the lion 
that it is your friend Boots.” 


75 8 *- 


When Boots had finished saying 
that, he heard the dragon coming ; 
and to make sure of the battle, he 
became an ant until the cruel dragon 
was safely inside his den. 



Then the ant suddenly changed its 
form and became a powerful lion that 


^ 76 


killed the dragon with one stroke of 
his paw. 

He then changed himself back to 
the merry lad and took the sisters 
home to the princess. 



Took the sisters home. 


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THE TORTOISE AND THE EARTH 

HERE are many 
people wlio believe 
that the earth once 
lay at the bottom 
of a great deep 
sea. They say that 
a turtle went down, down, down to 
the deep place where it lay, crawled 
under it, and brought it up into the 
sunshine, where it is to-day. These 
people think the turtle still holds the 
earth on his back. 

Men have liked turtles, and told 
each other pretty stories about them 
for many hundred years. 



LcfC. 


^ 78 


One story is that of the baby 
Apollo, who grew to be a man in 
three hours. He made a lyre from 
a tortoise shell. He drew such sweet 
music from it that all the flowers 
and birds and beasts came to listen. 
As they listened they grew so happy 
that they danced together. 

When the child-man saw how happy 
his music made the flowers and birds 
and beasts, he grew happier in his 
own heart. The very tortoise shell 
gave out sweeter sounds, until the 
stones began to dance. And at last 
all dead things felt the joy and came 
tripping out into the sunshine. 

One can feel as if the old turtle 


^ 79 


with the earth on his hack must have 
liked the merry beating of all these 
feet in the dance. Then he must 
have been glad that he was a tortoise, 
just as you are glad that you are 
children. 



Better poor with honor than rich \oith shame. 
By the street of By and By one arrives at the house 


of Never. 

The greatest oaks have been little acorns. 
With the good we become good. 


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CHAUCEK’S GARDEN 

GARDEN full of blos- 
somy boughs I spied, 
Where flowed a river, 
a green meadow 
through. 

With dowers white and 
yellow, red and 
blue. 

And clear, cold well-streams in whose living tide 
Were swimming many little dshes light. 

With ruddy dns and scales all silver bright. 

On every bough the singing birds I heard. 

And on a temple, of doves, white and fair. 
Beheld I sitting many an hundred pair. 

When I at length unto this place drew nigh. 
Of which I spake, that Avas so sweet and green. 
Then was I ’ware that there did sit a queen. 



81 


For there was set upon a hill of flowers, 

The noble goddess Nature in this land. 

Of branches fashioned were her halls and bowers. 

And Lady Nature held upon her hand 
A sister eagle of the gentlest mould 
That e^er among her works she did behold, 

So perfect. Nature did, herself, have bliss 
To look on her, and oft her beak to kiss. 



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